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Thanks for the responses. I'm aware of the server's location playing a part so thanks for reminding me of that. No URL or pages will change, and if I can get the response time down( Flash to HTML ) then that will play another positive part! Thanks again.

A vague question, granted. But I have a client who would like to increase traffic \ reduce bounce to their site. It's currently hosted and supported by Moonfruit (where users can build sites for free). At the moment the site ranks page 1 for a couple of keyword strings and ges around 600 unique per month. I'm confident the site can be improved SEO wise as it's flash based. To do this would require recoding the site from scratch and hosting it on my servers. Assuming I could do so without impacting its current SEO (I intend to improve it), would such a move away from Moonfruit affect its current rankings ? Has anybody gone through a similar experience and found Google preferred the site's original location? Of course, I don't want to carry out work resulting in a negative impact. Thanks for your help.

Wow that's a nice lightbox...!

Steve, Thanks for the response My home is www.limefox.co.uk My latest design which is 99% done is www.nkstonemasonry.com Would actually love some critique, i'm a bit of a lonely developer

Just a quick hello from me. I currently work as a Business Intelligence Analyst for a UK bank but I am a freelance web designer in my spare time - I have a long history of programming in the banking industry, some of it for Intranet .NET applications and I have also designed a handful of websites. I like to think my designing skills are getting better with each site I create, although my organization and marketing skills are still shocking !! I joined this site to hopefully help people, and give back to a community I have, in the past, sponged so much from. Kind regards, Nick

Apart from eating black meat and drinkning warm beer, I think the best thing about summer is the thunderstorms. The bigger the better. Even though the storms in the UK are pretty puny compared to some...

Without seeing the HTML, i'm assuming you would need to change text-align to left and margin to 0px 1px 0 0 in the following section : /* */ /* global definitions for field labels */ /* */ .cform label { width:90px; margin:4px 10px 0 0; display:-moz-inline-box; /*for mozilla*/ display:inline-block; /*for Opera & IE*/ text-align:right; vertical-align:top; } so it readds /* */ /* global definitions for field labels */ /* */ .cform label { width:90px; margin:0 10px 0 0; display:-moz-inline-box; /*for mozilla*/ display:inline-block; /*for Opera & IE*/ text-align:left; vertical-align:top; } regards, Nick

Google Webmaster Tools > Labs > Site Performance. Anything under 1.5 seconds - fast.

You could do a speed test using this utility http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ I believe, while not having access at the moment, Google considers anything below 1 or two seconds, slow. The two most important things that will slow a site down is the size of your images and the number of seperate objects (HTTP requests) required to complete a page. Cheers, Nick

This an annoying ie bug which, to confirm craftgeeks response, can be fixed by explicitly specifying the display property when an element is floated. I automatically add display:inline; when specifying float .

You could at least use the selection tool - draw your rectangle than go to Select > Modify > Smooth... Or you can use the roudned rectangle from the auto-shapes menu. Google 'rounded rectangles photoshop' regards, Nick

You could get a list of counties as a drop down here as an example: http://www.geekpedia .com/code150_Dropdown-List-Of-UK-Counties.html But to get towns - there would be too many to render all at once. You could have two dropdown boxes. One for the Counties as above. Upon selecting one, a postback would occur to populate the second with the towns of your selected county. This is a common method. Or you could incorporate AJAX as per Jay's suggestion.

Well you could try changing { failureMessage:"First Name is required" } to { failureMessage:"<br/> First Name is required" } Just to see what would happen, but without seeing the context this code is in I couldn't suggest anything more. I wouldn't actually recommend the above, not very elegant!

Hi there. Are you wanting to change this particular example or one of your own? It would just be a case of removing the JQuery animation and setting the position of the .caption class so it stays out.

I was about to suggest reaching out to CSS3 but its rounded corners don't work on images, which is a shame. Unless you could make the image a background image to a div and round the corners of that DIV... That's a bit desperate though for your situation!